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Autoregressive models have recently shown great promise in visual generation by leveraging discrete token sequences akin to language modeling. However, existing approaches often suffer from inefficiency, either due to token-by-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Ruiqing Yang , Kaixin Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Shan You , Tao Huang

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models have emerged as a strong alternative to diffusion for image synthesis, yet their fixed training resolution prevents direct generation at higher resolutions. Naively transferring training-free extrapolation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Feihong Yan , Shaoyu Liu , Haixuan Wang , Shuai Lu , Linfeng Zhang , Huiqi Li , Xiangyang Ji

Style transfer is an inventive process designed to create an image that maintains the essence of the original while embracing the visual style of another. Although diffusion models have demonstrated impressive generative power in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Haofan Wang , Peng Xing , Renyuan Huang , Hao Ai , Qixun Wang , Xu Bai

We introduce STAR, a text-to-image model that employs a scale-wise auto-regressive paradigm. Unlike VAR, which is constrained to class-conditioned synthesis for images up to 256$\times$256, STAR enables text-driven image generation up to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Xiaoxiao Ma , Mohan Zhou , Tao Liang , Yalong Bai , Tiejun Zhao , Biye Li , Huaian Chen , Yi Jin

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as an efficient paradigm for text-to-image generation. Despite their strong generative capability, existing VAR-based personalization methods remain limited to static settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Junhao Li , Xinhao Zhong , Yi sun , Yuxia Qiao , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Yaowei Wang

Despite the advancements in diffusion-based image style transfer, existing methods are commonly limited by 1) semantic gap: the style reference could miss proper content semantics, causing uncontrollable stylization; 2) reliance on extra…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Boyu He , Yunfan Ye , Chang Liu , Weishang Wu , Fang Liu , Zhiping Cai

We introduce a new paradigm for AutoRegressive (AR) image generation, termed Set AutoRegressive Modeling (SAR). SAR generalizes the conventional AR to the next-set setting, i.e., splitting the sequence into arbitrary sets containing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Wenze Liu , Le Zhuo , Yi Xin , Sheng Xia , Peng Gao , Xiangyu Yue

Despite the impressive generative capabilities of diffusion models, existing diffusion model-based style transfer methods require inference-stage optimization (e.g. fine-tuning or textual inversion of style) which is time-consuming, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , Jae-Pil Heo

The Swapping Autoencoder achieved state-of-the-art performance in deep image manipulation and image-to-image translation. We improve this work by introducing a simple yet effective auxiliary module based on gradient reversal layers. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Shima Shahfar , Charalambos Poullis

Artistic style transfer aims to use a style image and a content image to synthesize a target image that retains the same artistic expression as the style image while preserving the basic content of the content image. Many recently proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Kunxiao Liu , Guowu Yuan , Hao Wu , Wenhua Qian

Current image-to-image translations do not control the output domain beyond the classes used during training, nor do they interpolate between different domains well, leading to implausible results. This limitation largely arises because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Kunhee Kim , Sanghun Park , Eunyeong Jeon , Taehun Kim , Daijin Kim

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) models enable efficient image generation via next-scale prediction but face escalating computational costs as sequence length grows. Existing static pruning methods degrade performance by permanently removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kaixin Zhang , Ruiqing Yang , Yuan Zhang , Shan You , Tao Huang

Gatys et al. recently introduced a neural algorithm that renders a content image in the style of another image, achieving so-called style transfer. However, their framework requires a slow iterative optimization process, which limits its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Xun Huang , Serge Belongie

We present a deep learning-based method for propagating spatially-varying visual material attributes (e.g. texture maps or image stylizations) to larger samples of the same or similar materials. For training, we leverage images of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo , Elena Garces

The vector autoregressive (VAR) model has been widely used for modeling temporal dependence in a multivariate time series. For large (and even moderate) dimensions, the number of AR coefficients can be prohibitively large, resulting in…

Applications · Statistics 2013-10-21 Richard A. Davis , Pengfei Zang , Tian Zheng

This paper presents Diffusion via Autoregressive models (D-AR), a new paradigm recasting the image diffusion process as a vanilla autoregressive procedure in the standard next-token-prediction fashion. We start by designing the tokenizer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ziteng Gao , Mike Zheng Shou

Vision AutoRegressive model (VAR) was recently introduced as an alternative to Diffusion Models (DMs) in image generation domain. In this work we focus on its adaptations, which aim to fine-tune pre-trained models to perform specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaif Shaikh , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic

Autoregressive transformers have recently shown impressive image generation quality and efficiency on par with state-of-the-art diffusion models. Unlike diffusion architectures, autoregressive models can naturally incorporate arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yixiao Chen , Zhiyuan Ma , Guoli Jia , Che Jiang , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

Visual autoregressive (AR) generation models have demonstrated strong potential for image generation, yet their next-token-prediction paradigm introduces considerable inference latency. Although speculative decoding (SD) has been proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haotian Dong , Ye Li , Rongwei Lu , Chen Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Zhi Wang

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have enabled remarkable control over various attributes, yet precise color specification remains a fundamental challenge. Existing approaches, such as ColorPeel, rely on model…